Sid Meier's Civilization III (PC Games, 2001)

The best civilization game yet. Many improvements over civ2 including more units, technology, and better gameplay in general. A definate purchase for those who love the civilization game saga.

Basic summary: awesome, well done strategy game. But it might not be your type of game. It is more well balanced than Civ 2, and more realistic too. The diplomacy, especially trading, makes a ton of sense. It has most of the good features from Call to Power, Alpha Centaurii, and Civ 2, including: Realistic Bombardment: In real life, catapults and such can't annihilate troop concentrations, but are good in seiges. Capturing units: workers( they build roads and such) and artillery-type units can be captured instead of destroyed. Borders: you can actually see them; none of this "you're in my city radius" crap.
However, it does lack some fun aspects of Civ 2, such as fundamentalist governments (not very politically correct) and the ability to choose between a male and female leader (each leader has different portraits for each mood and time period, plus they're animated like a Harry Potter photograph. On the plus side, no stupid emissaries.) Also, you'll need to readjust your strategies if you're used to Civ 2. While there isn't any cheat menu, if it's too hard you can just re-load the game after critical battles. Also, you can just accept the fact that you can't build every wonder, or even be sure of winning the game, even at the easiest difficulty level. Another waste of time is watching the enemy painstakingly reshuffle his troops every turn, especially in a large, modern world. This can easily be avoided by turning off animation for people you're not at war with. You still have to watch them move, but they do it at a comically fast rate.
In general, better than any other game of it's kind.

I think it is very fun and cool to make your own civilization. It is also cool to get all the science things and make things that the US might never have been able to make or other things that you may never of heard of. I think it may not be the easiest game ever, but it is definitely one of the most fun.

I bought it because I saw civilation 4 and thought it was very cool, but expensive. So I checked out civilization 3 and found it really cheap and found it to be as cool as I thought 4 would be.

I love playing stategy games. I also own Sid Meiers Civilization III but comonaly lose. Civilization II is very similar but easier to pkay iun which I always win> Sometimes I would rather win than lose so I ordered this game which I had previously owned on another computer.

I bought this for my son and he really enjoys it! I bought it because he wanted it and we could not find it in any of the stores around here.

Civ 3 Conquests was a good close for this game. Civ IV has some pretty graphics but I feel it ended the wonders.

graphics keep you entertained, but there is a lag in action oftentimes. Also attacking can lead to disaster, much more than civ II.

The one main thing that I did not like about the game is that it can end too short even on the easiest level. The ideas and concept of the game is awesome. It's addictive when you first play. Definitely worth the money.

the best version....IV is too complicated...I love III....complication is not always better..KISS...great graphics...

I own the game and have played it before owning it. I bought it as a gift for a friend. I would recommend it to anyone who likes strategy games. It's a must have for older styled strategy games.

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Really like this game, although it is addictive. I was late for work the day I got the game because it is hard to stop playing.

My son has really enjoyed playing this game. It arrived in great condition and we were amazed we were able to get such a great price.

The game was awesome!!!! I liked it because you can pick any country and then pick if you want to be a king, queen, prince,princess, warlord, emperor, etc. Then you build villages and make armies ,and then become friends and enemies with neighbouring kingdoms.But you have to be carefull where you build your kingdom because you have to make sure they are getting enough food, water, and protection. You also can build wonders of the world like the great pyrimids, the hanging gardens,the eiffel tower, etc. But to be able to build the things you have to raise tax rates and go exploring to get money. You also can't raise the taxes to much or your city will be in chaos. Things also have to be discovered to be the best kindom in the world so you have to get explorers and discover the alphabet, then you have to discover writing, after you know writing you can discover currency, mathamatics, mapmaking,etc. Then eventually you can discover going to space and building electronics having a democracy, republic, etc. But the whole time in the game you have to be very carefull not to become enemies with the countries and make sure barbarians dont destroy your country. It is one of the most challanging games i have ever played. The game also teaches history by telling kids what came first in history before all the electronics and stuff that we know today. This game is a really good buy.This is the review given by my grand daughter Miss ARCHANA aged 13 years.
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This game is a clever remake on Microprose's original Civilization
game. I ended up buying a copy of the expansion to play online:
Civilization III: Play the World.

Although it was made by Firaxis, this game was well designed and
challenging. It is very time consuming but also quite addicting.
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The product is good, the CD is intact. Thought it would come with the box but alas, no box. Still, the game is there and that is what counts.